Shadowlands DPS Rankings in Season 3 Week 16 - Third Week of Patch 9.2.5
Today we will take a look at the DPS balance in Sepulcher of the First Ones during the third week of Patch 9.2.5! For this analysis we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Mythic Sepulcher of the First Ones statistics.
The idea of this article is to give a perspective of the current state of class balance for Season 3, meaning this is an incomplete picture of season 3 balance.
We say perspective, as there are inherent biases in looking at the data this way.
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Disclaimers and Source
The data for this article was taken from the Sepulcher of the First Ones Statistics Page on Warcraft Logs for Mythic difficulty in the week of June 14th. We will be looking at data for the 95th percentile, plus showing the overall results to paint a better picture.The idea of this article is to give a perspective of the current state of class balance for Season 3, meaning this is an incomplete picture of season 3 balance.
We say perspective, as there are inherent biases in looking at the data this way.
- Specs that are considered underpowered are generally played less and tend to appear weaker than they actually are.
- This happens as many performance-oriented players will tend to play the strongest spec or class, increasing even further the gap between top and bottom specs.
- Position of specs for the 95th percentile might be skewed by alternative strategies and parse funneling. For that, we're including the chart showing the result for all percentiles to paint a better picture for all specs.
Patch 9.2.5DPS Rankings in Season 3 - Mythic Sepulcher of the First Ones Week of June 14th
95th Percentile Statistics
 Overall Damage |  Damage to Bosses |
Overall Statistics
 Overall Damage |  Damage to Bosses |
| Position | Spec and Class | Population Size | Change from Last Week |
| 1 | Destruction Warlock | 15979 | 0 |
| 2 | Demonology Warlock | 9622 | 0 |
| 3 | Frost Death Knight | 7373 | 0 |
| 4 | Survival Hunter | 7767 | 0 |
| 5 | Windwalker Monk | 3606 | ↑1 |
| 6 | Assassination Rogue | 1041 | ↓1 |
| 7 | Feral Druid | 1141 | 0 |
| 8 | Elemental Shaman | 3860 | 0 |
| 9 | Unholy Death Knight | 2346 | ↑8 |
| 10 | Outlaw Rogue | 4209 | 0 |
| 11 | Fire Mage | 10105 | ↑5 |
| 12 | Enhancement Shaman | 5387 | ↓3 |
| 13 | Arms Warrior | 4988 | ↓1 |
| 14 | Shadow Priest | 4512 | ↓1 |
| 15 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 12154 | ↓4 |
| 16 | Affliction Warlock | 428 | ↑2 |
| 17 | Retribution Paladin | 3845 | ↓2 |
| 18 | Marksmanship Hunter | 11598 | ↓4 |
| 19 | Fury Warrior | 11766 | ↑2 |
| 20 | Frost Mage | 7565 | ↓1 |
| 21 | Subtlety Rogue | 6333 | ↑1 |
| 22 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 10787 | ↑1 |
| 23 | Balance Druid | 15592 | ↑1 |
| 24 | Arcane Mage | 1151 | ↓4 |
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I think this is the longest time any one spec has been at the top, much less this far ahead, at least for as long as one been playing. You'd think they would've done something to shake up the balance of the game a little by now.
I'm amazed how small the population sizes are. And lol @ the outliers too.
!@#$%^&WitchAcad said:
I think this is the longest time any one spec has been at the top, much less this far ahead, at least for as long as one been playing. You'd think they would've done something to shake up the balance of the game a little by now.
Let us warlocks enjoys this while it lasts. We get nerfed hard when season 4 starts I know it for sure.
Not a good idea to waste development time on shadowlands now that they have a release date of Dragonflight in 2022. Besides, actual balancing in this game is pretty much impossible.
*!@#$%^WitchAcad said:
I think this is the longest time any one spec has been at the top, much less this far ahead, at least for as long as one been playing. You'd think they would've done something to shake up the balance of the game a little by now.
Destruction has been top for only this tier, it was atrocious in Sanctum. A class being dominant for an entire tier is a very regular thing because Blizzard don't do mid-tier balancing as any meta-swinging alterations mid-tier make a lot of players feel they made "the wrong choice" and "have wasted their time" by re-rolling for the tier and it's something Blizzard want to avoid.
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I don't know where this is coming from... We have extra talents and factors for PvP and raid is literally the easiest thing to balance. The hardest part to balance is m+ & raid together.
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Balance is looking good ngl if we don't count destro. For the amount of stuff there are to balance they are doing pretty good job
Jesus Christ, those are statystics from MYTHIC raid difficulty. I can assure anyone who's complaining about the current balance, really good balance because of the variety is not NEARLY as good to be affected by those "rankings". What you see here is people who play their classes really, REALLY well to the point that they can beat YOU on the worst class that there is on Single Target if you played the best class with your attitude.
You have a LOT to learn before you have a right to complain. You would really only get affected by playing a spec you like instead of what's optimal if you played perfectly at highest ilvls, with the best gear, which i doubt if you type these kinds of comments on some site that doesn't even include many things in their guides, so you have to look around more if you're looking to learn instead of complaining.
This is coming from a very mediocre player/under the average player. Get your $%^& together and stop @#$%ting on blizz for non-existent problems, like current class balance. It's way better than it used to be.
Only PvP balance is a mixed bag. PvE is very fine.
You have a LOT to learn before you have a right to complain. You would really only get affected by playing a spec you like instead of what's optimal if you played perfectly at highest ilvls, with the best gear, which i doubt if you type these kinds of comments on some site that doesn't even include many things in their guides, so you have to look around more if you're looking to learn instead of complaining.
This is coming from a very mediocre player/
Only PvP balance is a mixed bag. PvE is very fine.
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Tate39 said:
I don't know where this is coming from... We have extra talents and factors for PvP and raid is literally the easiest thing to balance. The hardest part to balance is m+ & raid together.
WoW requires balancing around:
main stat
tertiary stat
secondary stat
single target
aoe
cleave target
set bonuses
legendary effects
talents
trinkets
procs (spec procs and weapon procs)
mob debuffs
and some other things I'm not thinking about
You don't really understand all the factors if you think it's easy to balance this.
Beelzeduup said:
You have a LOT to learn before you have a right to complain. You would really only get affected by playing a spec you like instead of what's optimal if you played perfectly at highest ilvls, with the best gear, which i doubt if you type these kinds of comments on some site that doesn't even include many things in their guides, so you have to look around more if you're looking to learn instead of complaining.
This is coming from a very mediocre player/under the average player. Get your $%^& together and stop @#$%ting on blizz for non-existent problems, like current class balance. It's way better than it used to be.
Only PvP balance is a mixed bag. PvE is very fine.
This is coming from a very mediocre player/
Only PvP balance is a mixed bag. PvE is very fine.
Most people reading this fat finger more DPS out of their performance than balance ever will.
Even this is kinda indicative of misunderstanding.
Firedup uses all 3 mage specs based on the fight and his Arcane PUMPS on the fights he uses it.
Firedup uses all 3 mage specs based on the fight and his Arcane PUMPS on the fights he uses it.
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